The game show Cash Cab was involved in a fatal accident on Friday, it has been reported.

A taxi for the Canadian edition of the Discovery Channel series, in which passengers in the vehicle earn money by answering trivia questions, struck and killed an elderly pedestrian, Entertainment Weekly reports.

A producer on the series was driving the cab back to its storage facility shortly after wrapping a day of filming when he hit the 61-year-old resident of British Columbia.

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"Our thoughts and prayers are with the victim and his friends and his family," said Andrew Burnstein, president of Castlewood Productions Inc., the company behind the Canadian version of the show.

"My heart also goes out to the driver of the vehicle, a member of our technical staff, who is shaken and devastated by this tragic accident, as is our entire team."

No charges have been brought against the producer who was involved in the accident.